Maria Braender is a Danish performance artist and director currently based in Glasgow. She recently graduated with a BA Honours of the first class, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Maria enjoys entanglements of art forms and means of expression and therefore aims for artistic processes to be exploratory and interdisciplinary. She has a strong interest in ecocriticism and for that reason her work is often informed by research of human/non-human relationships. Maria seeks out to work together with widespread fields of practitioners which most recently led her to collaborate with Radix Theatre, in Canada. Presently, Maria is excited that her performance Telling the Bees has been selected by Cryptic Theatre to be presented as part of the Cryptic Nights´ Programme, at CCA's Theatre, in Glasgow. Other artists and companies Maria has collaborated with/performed for include: Anna Katrin Egilstrød, Ines Bento Coelho, Hotel Pro Forma, Jens Galschiøt, Laura Thompson, Lea Porsager, Lost in Sounds, National Danish Television, Nic Green, Stine Ruine and Suns of Satan.